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Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway
Johan Christian Dahl1848
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Johan Christian Dahl painted this dramatic view of the Feige Waterfall at Lysterfjord, one of the most spectacular natural wonders in his homeland, at time a when Norwegians were trying to foster awareness of their identity as a distinct national culture. Dahl’s views of Norway played a crucial role in establishing his reputation as the leading Norwegian artist of the period and one of most important landscape painters of the Romantic era.
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- Title: Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway
- Creator: Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857)
- Date Created: 1848
- Physical Dimensions: 42 x 58 cm (16 9/16 x 22 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Sachsischer Kunstverein Dresden, Germany, acquired from the artist, December 7, 1848, Private Collection, by descent until 2010, (Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom, auction sale, June 2, 2010, lot 212, sold to Asbjorn Lunde), Asbjorn Lunde [1927-2017], New York, NY, (Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandels GmbH, Muhich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.76
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right: "Dahl / 1848"
- Fun Fact: Set against a magnificent mountain cliff, the waterfall empties into a broad fjord that stretches nearly 70 miles before reaching the ocean just north of Dahl’s hometown of Bergen.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Norway
- Credit Line: Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 2019.76
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